I'm currently reading a rather good book entitled "The
Nurturing of Time Future," by Howard Richards http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-nurturing-of-time-future-howard-richards/1109407001.
Although the author's love affair with run-on
paragraphs causes eye-stain at times, he does make
several very important points -- including that
whenever a country loses its true moral compass, it
soon becomes vulnerable to having pseudo-morality
imposed upon it from above.

And Richards isn't talking about God here.

Richards is talking about dictators -- dictators who
are able to impose their own moralities on us because
we no longer have any moral code of our own.

Take, for instance, the folks in Washington and on
Wall Street who are currently leading our nation away
from its traditional Judeo-Christian values -- while
at the same time declaring themselves to be doing
God's work. Really? "Screw Christ's message of
tolerance, compassion and love for our neighbors,"
they constantly preach to us. And we let them.
"Justice is dead. Greed is now God."

So much for greed being the Third Deadly Sin.

Take, for instance, what is currently happening to the
Occupy Movement. After a few of us started to wake up
and demand economic morality? We got punched in the
face by corporatistas who want none of that. "Screw
fairness," the One Percent chant -- and then the rest
of America sides with the Big Guys and applauds from
the sidelines as black-shirted cops beat our moral
minority to a pulp.

Take, for instance, Palestinian non-violent protesters
who dare to think that it is morally wrong to
blatantly seize other people's land. Israeli
corporatisitas then kill these protesters -- using
weapons paid for by Americans. "Screw non-violence!"
yell our leaders, happily rejoicing that they now get
to kill unarmed humans beings instead of having to
fight men with guns. And we let these
dictator-wannabes get away with this because making
obscene profits by any means necessary now matters
more to us than morality. No surprise there.

Take, for instance, American women's demands for
equality. "Keep them barefoot and pregnant!" scream
our leaders. Where's the morality in that, you might
ask. But most Americans don't even bother to ask, not
even American women. Corporatistas on the prowl for
cheap labor would love to see women treated like
chattel. And we let them. Why not. There's profit
involved.

Take, for instance, all the television commercials we
see daily. In the course of only one half-hour of TV,
we sit through perhaps 20 to 30 commercials. But that
in itself is not immoral. What is immoral is the
messages embedded in these commercials: "Keep buying!"
Keep buying and buying and buying -- even as we
cannibalize our own planet.

And those of us Americans who demand a fair tax rate
for the rich, one that would only be in proportion to
their obscene profits at our expense as we pick up
their tab for infrastructure, worker training,
healthcare, pensions, resource loss, weapons supply,
etc.? Dare to object? Boy are we put in our place
fast. Obscene profits should never get taxed -- no
matter where they come from. Only Jesus and communists
think like that. "Screw Jesus!" the Big Boys cry. And
we let them.

And then of course, there is the morality of Endless
War http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30875
that seems to be catching everybody's eye right now --
wars paid for by monies taken from America's veterans,
little old ladies and our working class.

The Good Old Boys' Club has found a whole new way to
"Support the Troops" -- by taking away their pension
plans.

And with regard to small businesses that demand a
slice of the pie because it's the moral thing to do?
Too bad for them also. Corporate morality doesn't care
about anything but itself.

And apparently American morality doesn't care much
about anything but obscene profits for large
corporations either -- and, under America's new moral
code which lacks any compass at all except for one
that points toward the Pentagon and Wall Street, our
country is moving closer and closer to becoming a
dictatorship.